Bride of Violence

This sucked. I don't care if it's based on a Lawrence Block story or that he produced it. I don't care that some nutty site found it intellectually rewarding. It SUCKED.

A Drop of the Hard Stuff

I stayed up to finish reading Lawrence Block's "A Drop of the Hard Stuff", the welcome return of unofficial private eye Matthew Scudder. It wasn't the best of the series, and I was sad to see the now aged Scudder relegated to narrating cases a quarter century old. Still, I rarely tire of Block's simple but skilled prose, and I enjoyed reading it from start to finish. B